Brussels - Russia should stop contributing to the conflicts in Georgia's breakaway regions and allow international mediators to help bring peace, Georgia's new foreign minister, Eka Tkeshelashvili
Stockholm - Finland and Sweden are to study closer cooperation in defence including procurement of defence material, the defence ministers of the Nordic neighbours said Monday.
Brussels - European Union officials hoped Monday to make progress on a key deal with Russia during a meeting of foreign ministers in Brussels devoted largely to the bloc's eastern neighbours.
Brussels - Industrial emissions of carbon dioxide in the European Union rose in 2007 despite EU schemes to cut them, with the EU's wealthiest and oldest members leading the surge, the bloc's execu